Improvement in cheese-hoops



UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.'

GEORGE B. BOOMER, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHEESE-Hoops.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 135,514, dated February 4, 1.873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. BooMER, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GheeseHoops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, 4and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specilication, in Which- Figure l represents, in perspective, the cheese-hoop complete and closed. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section through the same. Fig. 3 represents a top plan of the cheese hoop as it appears when opened to remove or to place a cheese.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur in theseparate iigures, denote like parts ot' the cheese-hoop in the drawing.

My invention consists in a cheese-hoop, the ring or cylinder of which is made in three sections-viz., one section stationary and firmly secured to the bed or base, and the two other sections hinged to the stationary one, so that the hoopmay be readily opened to receive or to remove the article to be pressed therein.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing.

lhe base A of the hoophas the usual channels or drains a al a communicating with a flow-off, b, and over this channel-base is placed a perforated plate, B, upon which the cheese is placed. To this base-piece A is securely united the stationary section C of the hoop or cylinder, and tof this stationary section is hinged, as at c c, the movable sections D E. These sections are ribbed on their inner sides and lined with perforated plates F, through and by which the fluid matter pressed from the cheese is conducted first to the base A and thence out at b. On the adjacent edges ot' the sections D E are formed -wedge-shaped haltI lugs z' i, over which, when said edges are brought together, wedge-shaped clamps u are slipped to hold the sections firmly together. Other fastenings may be used, and such as may be united or hinged to the sections so as not to be mislaid.

When a cheese is placed in this hoop and the sections closed around it, or before they are closed, a plate, m, Fig. 2, is placed upon the cheese, through which the pressure is applied to squeeze out all iiuid matter. It will be observed, by reference toFig. 3, how Wide the space becomes when the sections D E are swung back,through which the cheese may be placed in or removed from the hoop, and how readily it may be handled.

Having thus fully explained my invention, what I claim is- In a cheese-hoop, the combination with a base, A, and with a section, C, permanently and rigidly fastened thereto, the two sections D E hinged to the rigid section C, as and for the purpose described and represented.,

GEORGE B. BOOMER.

Witnesses:

A. B. SToUGHToN, GEO. P. BARBER. 

